RxDoctor Payments Data

Megan Malzone, MD

Internal Medicine · Pismo Beach, CANPI 1518996412

Payments from drug & device makers

$480in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $22.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$155
  • Novo Nordisk$111
  • Johnson & Johnson$52
  • Radius Health, Inc.$41
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$36
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$24
  • plus $62 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$480100%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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24

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

How this compares

$480 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$137,970
Medicare patients
202
Services billed
1,783

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban33$48,681
OzempicSemaglutide31$38,731
XareltoRivaroxaban25$38,342
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol24$23,897
MounjaroTirzepatide11$11,121
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate13$4,103
Levothyroxine Sodium222$2,726
Atorvastatin Calcium209$2,312
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$1,944
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog23$1,889
Metoprolol Succinate109$1,800
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium34$1,764
Losartan Potassium121$1,535
Gabapentin79$1,455
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir23$1,429

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$14$50,11056 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$111$38,73131 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$52$38,34225 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$24$1,76434 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 65th percentile of 13,581 internal medicine providers in California.

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